Y'all know I'm always all about Tennessee, and so I trust you'll indulge this brief look northward. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has government troubles, too. Theirs came most recently in the form of a pay raise for the...
Because I have a love for all things history, and because Oprah is a goddess, I had to pick-up the latest Oprah's Book Club Book, Night. Sure, I've read the Diary of Anne Frank, and watched TV specials on the...
JFK Club: Come join us for the special event!!! Congressman Lincoln Davis (D-4th) is coming to Chattanooga on Monday, Feb. 13, 2006 to speak to our JFK Club. The event will be held at the Chattanoogan Hotel at the regular...
Jacob reported to Dr. Jenkin's office for his two month check-up today. The doctor said that everything looked great. Jacob weighs 10#4oz and is 22 1/2 inches long. He was just above the 10th percentile in weight and just under...
We need... Rods from God. 20-foot long tungsten telephone poles launched from orbit. All the fun of nuclear weaponry but none of the unpleasantness. And it'll take out hardened, underground targets too. Coordinate a series of...
If you can't stand listening to/looking at the guy, you can read it instead (can somebody ask him what happened to Bush's moon base? And when will the colonizing of Mars begin?)....
yes friends. Humus is for humans, it's great. and it too may already be turned into processed food. Isn't everything processed these days... it's such a drag, it makes me mad......
I cleaned out my email box today (well -- most of it... there's still a little to go for tomorrow). The mail tends to build up, since on most days I usually only have time for action items and people...
After a long painful 24 hours, I read Digby's blog about the filibuster and he thought we - the grassroots- did much better with the Democratic Party than he could have imagined. Hmmm.... he quotes Robert F. Kennedy,...
Apparently someone in Isreal has picked up on the idea and got some of the Hamas Election Victory caps, you can even get a scarf. Just look at this quick search for hamas on ebay: http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=hamas and they have bids!...
Chuck Norris keeps a list of individuals that are endowed with variant traits which improve survival and reproduction. He allows those on this list to live. That list is the engine of biological evolution. Chuck Norris roundhouse kicks all other...
A friend saw my post about the UnumProvident stock drop and made me aware that CIGNA stock has gone up over 6% in the last four days…currently trading at $120 a share vs. $113 last week. Morgan Stanley changed its rating...
After a long dry spell of playing PC games I finally found new one worthy of my time and my lowered ambitions to do much else. The last great RTS game in my mind was Starcraft. It had...
Chris Webber Timeout Originally uploaded by josiahq. It's been nearly thirteen years since I watched an entire college basketball game. Its not because I don't love the sport, or because something like...
What an utter failure the administration has been. We were attacked by a ruthless criminal. He still has not been brougt to justice. We have been promised repeatedly that the homeland will be protected. After Katrina, what fool believes this...
ME: (singing) ". . .My heroes have always been cowboys. . .and they still are it seems. . ." JOSEPH: You're heroes are still cowboys? ME: Not really. It's just how the song goes. JOSEPH: So that song didn't really...
Well I didn't want to be the prophet of bad things to come but it looks like the market didn't like the reduced earnings. Hopefully, this was just a market correction. The word I get from folks there was that this...
A Pioneer for Peace-Coretta Scott King Coretta Scott King took up the mantle for peace and equality after her husband's assassination. She was a woman of dignity and character. Coretta Scott King died today closing a chapter in the...
If ever I needed to heed my own advice, it is today. The last two weeks of my life have been spent calling and emailing Senators -both Republican and Democratic- to encourage a filibuster. In the beginning it...
Yikes! Wonker (my name for the now Cox-less blog) has been redesigned and it looks huge! I haven't checked in for some time, so maybe the new look has been up for a while -- sorry if it's old news......
Four Jobs I Have Had: server project manager Burger King get to work at 430 am boy switchboard operator Four Movies I Could Watch Over and Over: Moonstruck Return of the King The Wizard of Oz Casablanca Four Books I Could Read Over and Over: The Lion, the Witch, and...
This little ditty has been running through my brain of late, due to my hearing it on the radio as I travel to and from my teaching gigs. I feel no shame I'm proud of where I came from I was born and...
The REAL reason that the John Kerry-led filibuster against the appointment of Samuel Alito happened is because, even to many Democrats, the words "John Kerry" and "talking for a really long time" are even more revolting than the thought of...
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